When first contacted, the Organians appeared to be
a relatively primitive people. Reports indicated that their technology
was limited to simple metal tools, mainly used for farming and building
primitive dwellings. Unfortunately, their planet happened to lie in a highly
important strategic position between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
When the two powers went to war in 2266, the USS Enterprise was ordered
to secure the planet and prevent it from falling into Klingon hands.

Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beamed down to
talk to the Organians leaders in an attempt to gain their support for Federation
occupation of the planet. On arrival the two discovered an Organian village
near to a large stone castle, something that they should not have been
able to build at such a low technology level. Commander Spocks analysis
showed that the Organian society was totally arrested culture, with no
cultural or technological progress at all for at least tens of thousands
of years. Yet the Organians themselves expressed no surprise at the aliens
arrival, even though they beamed down in front of many witnesses. Kirk
found it difficult to talk to the Organians; they claimed to have no leaders
and little in the way of organized social structure. Those whom Kirk talked
to expressed a total disinterest in the war and dismissed the possibility
that it would impact them in any way. When offered advanced technology
by Kirk, the Organians politely declined.

While the meeting was underway a Klingon fleet
arrived at the planet and forced the Enterprise out of orbit. Hundreds
of troops beamed down, trapping both Starfleet officers on the planet.
The Organians disguised the pair to hide them from the Klingons in order
to avoid bloodshed, but even when faced with the brutality of Klingon occupation
they steadfastly refused to choose sides. They would seemingly make any
sacrifice to protect the officers - once the Klingons realized who the
Organians were protecting they murdered hundreds of hostages in retribution.
Yet the Organians shrugged this off as irrelevant, claiming that nobody
had really died.

Only when Kirk and Spock were finally captured
and threatened with death did the Organians reveal their true nature. The
combatants on the planet, as well as the Federation and Romulan fleets
preparing to do battle, suddenly began to radiate energy equivalent to
several hundred degrees, causing agonizing pain to any who touched them.
Yet there were no ill effects on those involved, so long as they did not
come into contact with one another or their weapons. One of the Organians
announced that they had put a stop to the war and would allow no further
violence between the two sides - a message which he claimed to be delivering
simultaneously to those on Organia, the nearby fleets, and to the capital
worlds of the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

Ayelborne said that he and the other Organians
found interference in the affairs of others disgusting, yet they abhorred
violence and the recent move to war had forced their hand. Ayelborne claimed
- correctly, as it transpired - that the Federation and Klingon Empire
would one day become allies and work together, but that the Organians were
not prepared to allow millions to die before this happened. He ended by
ordering the aliens off Organia, saying that the mere presence of our kind
of life was painful for his people. When Kirk questioned this statement,
the Organians transformed themselves into brilliant luminescent globes
and vanished.

Spock surmised that the Organians had once been
corporeal life forms much as we are but had evolved into beings of pure
energy, as far beyond us as we are beyond the amoeba - they apparently
assumed a physical form and created surroundings to match in order to accommodate
the visitors to their world.

After this occasion there was little further contact
with the Organians. The peace treaty remained in force for some time but
eventually they appear to have decided that the Federation and Klingon
Empire had learned to co-exist without their guardianship.

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